A mathematical model constructed by researchers at Imperial College London predicts the risk of cardiovascular disease (heart attacks, stroke) associated with low background levels of radiation. The model shows that the risk would vary almost in proportion with dose.

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I remember finding this one yesterday (I made my lazy brain do some leg work on news.google.com and youtube.com and find some articles on my own for half the day yesterday while ENENEWS was getting its behind the scenes upgrade).

Maybe it goes back to the hitler days of creating the super race. Some people will not feel the effects of medium exposure. There are 80 year old smokers. They cough and hack, a little. But still kickin.
The human body is the work of god, a work of art. It can be tuffer than boiled owl shit or feeble as a butterfly.
The race will mutate, for better or worse, unless blown up into tiny pieces.

And the flares are occuring in the moon-tide-perigee window, roughly from the 6-1 new moon thru the 6-12 perigee thru the 6-15 full moon, plus 2 more days thru west coast 7 foot plus high tides from 6-15 to 6-17.

Some Asian action during that window won’t surprise me, and knowing we were in the window helped me confirm and post that the Tepco camera shaking on 6-3 was in fact the 6.3 Honshu quake.

Being 10 miles from the CA San Andreas fault, I’m leaving the van outside all those nights.

Thanks so much Tacoma,
Many are called but Few are Chosen.
You would hope some Scoffers would choose to devote
a little Attention-span to something outside
their normal routine.
Kumar’s quake predictions highlighted the 120-140 longitude
area. Maybe time for the Juan de Fuca chip to pop-up
and give the islands a bath, like you said, maybe 3,000 ft.
of cleansing Pacific waters, if I remember right?

The book about Chernobyl published by the NY Academy of Sciences (was $150, now can be found free on the internet) talked quite a bit about a condition named Chernobyl Heart. Turns out Cesium is muscle-seeking and has is believed to have caused some serious heart problems, including among children.

I just did a google search and found a link for a documentary about this:

The decision of the German government to phase out nuclear power by 2022 has reopened an energy debate that has far wider implications than Germany or Japan, which is still coming to terms with events at the damaged Fukushima plant.

This virtual issue, published by the SETAC journal Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry adds to that debate by exploring the ecological effects of radiation, using research from the Chernobyl disaster.

The issue is a freely accessible resource for researchers that offers a historical precedent for considering the long-term environmental impact of the nuclear accident in Fukushima.

“From snails to voles and trout, a region’s entire ecosystem can be impacted by radiation from the type of nuclear disaster experienced at Chernobyl twenty-five years ago, or at Fukushima today,” said ET&C Editor-in-Chief Herb Ward, from Rice University, Houston. “The research brought together in this virtual issue allows us to better understand the long-term ecological and environmental impact of Chernobyl, setting a bench mark that allows us to anticipate the effects of future nuclear accidents.”

Many Canadians feel they are safe from the infiltration of radiation, but radiation monitors have shown that copious amounts of radiation from Japan’s crippled Fukushima plant have reached Canadian shores and are also travelling along the jet stream. Until recently, radiation monitors have been shut down. About 20 monitors out of 124 were out of service last week, according to the Environmental Protective Agency (EPA).

With the radiation issue on mute, Health Canada has reported that there is no significant risk, and it seems that most local farmers are taking their word as gospel. However, with no official tests being conducted in Central Newfoundland, how can farmers be certain they are in the clear?

***The Beacon then called around to local farmers to inform them of the situation and gauge who would be interested in having their farms tested. Some were extremely reluctant, saying Health Canada claimed there was no risk, so they see no reason to investigate further. Gambo’s Nita Abbott of LA Farms, and her husband Ken, have been running their 150-acre farm in Gambo for 11 years, growing vegetables and some fruit. She expressed an interest, and feels it would be irresponsible not to be open to testing given that people’s health could be at risk. Ms. Abbott acknowledged that with radiation in our jet stream it naturally penetrates soil and water during a rainfall.

“I want to know I’m selling a safe product. I don’t mind being a part of anything that advances agriculture. Radiation is airborne, and we share the same air space. I wouldn’t be surprised if terrorism shifts to climactic manipulation.” Ms. Abbott added she had four loons in her pond, which makes it difficult to believe anything is wrong. However, if there is a radiation threat she wants to deal with it.

Jason Bull of Eastport Organics has not heard anything about possible radiation contamination, but is open to testing.

“Currently, as I understand it, the fallout from the Fukushima incident in no way compares to Chernobyl or the testing the U.S. government carried out in the fifties and sixties,” said Mr. Bull.***

***The Beacon then contacted Eugene Legge, President of Newfoundland and Labrador Federation of Agriculture, who said he’s interested in testing to see if there is a reasonable risk. He acknowledged that jet streams do carry radioactive particles, and that Canada could be directly affected even when it’s travelling from as far away as Japan. “If it’s an oversight on our part for not investigating when it could be necessary, I’m on board.”

The Japanese government is telling people they have nothing to worry about, and has raised the official limits of radiation exposure for children in Fukushima Prefecture, to 20 milliSievert per year, which is 20 times the internationally recognized annual allowable dose for adults. This was done so schools can remain open and operational.

A Greenpeace environmental group said its findings run counter to Japanese government reports that radiation from the Fukushima plant is being diluted as time passes.***

****It has been shown on numerous radiation maps that a radiation “storm” has been engulfing North America from the time the nuclear reactors at Fukushima entered critical meltdown status. As radioactive particles spread over the surface of the land, they get into whatever is growing. From there, these highly poisonous contaminants get into whatever creatures eat. It also gets into humans if it is in the various fruits and vegetables people eat. In the case of cows and other grazing animals, could eating meat from North America be hazardous to human health?

These cesium-137 particles do not lose strength, dissipate, or get watered down in any of the various life forms they move through before they reach human bodies. They retain all their radioactive power, that is to say, any cesium-137 that penetrates a living creature has a staying power for life – unless active steps to counter these poisons are taken. This includes all the various supplements that help rid our bodies of such highly toxic contaminants such as potassium Iodide.

“Despite what the authorities are claiming, radioactive hazards are not decreasing through dilution or dispersion of materials, but the radioactivity is instead accumulating in marine life,” Greenpeace radiation expert Jan Vande Putte reported in a press release.

Greenpeace stated that its teams collected samples of marine life along the Fukushima coast and in international waters outside Japan’s 12-mile territorial limit. The samples were tested by nuclear research laboratories in France and Belgium, which found high levels of radioactive iodine and cesium.****

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